Goodwin Transfers from Carolina

The Daily Tar Heel reported Monday night that former Rocky Mount High school athlete Brian Goodwin has transferred from Carolina to Miami Dade community college in Miami Florida.

Goodwin who in the fall had been ruled ineligible to play for North Carolina’s Baseball team this spring can now play for Miami Dade this spring and weight his options after spring as to transferring back to a Division One school or applying for the major League Baseball draft.

Gryphon basketball begins the second season tonight after the Christmas break as they Host Hertford County. Both varsity squads beat HC in mid December in rather close games in Ahoskie. Friday night the conference play starts before the exam break hits. Winter sports program have a hard time getting momentum going with all the breaks taken for holidays and exams.

I don’t know how many people watched the Duke women last night with their game hosting Kentucky. The Duke women are ranked #3 in the latest women’s college basketball poll and now that U Conn's long winning streak is over all women’s team have optimism that it is no longer U Conn for the title and everyone else running for second.

Kentucky has never had a women’s team worth much except this year. Last night Duke started out the second half making only one of their first 18 shots. The game was tied at 48 with a minute to play and a Duke pass was deflected and bounced off the backboard into the goal to give Duke the lead that they would not give back as they win 53-48. Sometimes lady luck is better than talent.

This week begins in full force the college basketball conference schedule. There has been so much talk of how poor the ACC is this year that Carolina and State just might get top four positions by seasons end. Both still have major flaws but looking at everyone else except for Duke all the other ACC schools seems to be just as bad. Sidney Lowe had better get his best ACC finish ever this year or look for an NBA job. If he can’t win in this league as bad as it seems to be this year he never will in Raleigh.

I was on a personal mission of not watching the Sugar Bowl last night after what the NCAA has done with the Ohio State five players who were caught for the most part doing the same thing the Carolina football players who were not allowed to play this year for doing. Four of the five played significant roles in Ohio State's win over Arkansas last night of 31-26 victory.

It might be time for the BCS schools to break from the NCAA and form their own association. The NCAA is like our federal government and has gotten to large to protect those that it is supposed to serve. Especially when it ignores the rules that itself has created and does not apply justice in equal manner.

Like everything else money rules.